Eucalypts of MBG Eucalyptus Arborteum

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Eucalypts of MBG Eucalyptus Arborteum
EUCALYPTS of the
MELTON BOTANIC GARDEN
Eucalyptus Arboretum
First edition
December 2015
This booklet was developed by Wendy Johnson, Barb Pye and David Pye, members
of the Friends of the Melton Botanic Garden
Photographs are by Barb Pye and David Pye
Information was referenced from:
• Euclid, CSIRO Publishing, 3rd Edition, 2006
• Nicolle, Dean. Native Eucalypts of South Australia, 2013
• Florabase – https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au - website of the Western Australian
Herbarium
This guide will be revised at intervals as more photos become available, and as more
species become established in the garden. It is expected that the map quality will
also be improved.
Location of the Melton Botanic Garden
The Public Car Park is on Lakewood Boulevard.
The Depot and Plant Nursery are near corner of Tullidge Street and Williams Street.
See Melways Map 337 Ref: C10 and D10
Contact details:
Friends of the Melton Botanic Garden
PO Box 2381
Melton South, Vic, 3338
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.fmbg.org.au
December 2015
Photo cover page:
Eucalyptus caesia subsp magna “Silver Princess”
Eucalypts of the Melton Botanic Garden – December 2015 edition
CONTENTS
Maps
North East Arboretum
North West Arboretum
South East Arboretum
Page
No.
4
5
6
Species
Eucalyptus alatissima
Eucalyptus albida (White-leaved mallee)
Eucalyptus albopurpurea (Coffin Bay mallee)
Eucalyptus angulosa (Ridge-fruited mallee)
Eucalyptus arachnaea (Black-stemmed mallee)
Eucalyptus baueriana (Blue box)
Eucalyptus behriana (Bull mallee)
Eucalyptus brandiana (Brand’s mallet, Square-fruited
mallet)
Eucalyptus burracoppinensis (Burracoppin mallee)
Eucalyptus caesia (Caesia)
Eucalyptus caesia subsp. magna (Silver Princess)
Eucalyptus calycogona (Square-fruited mallee)
Eucalyptus campaspe (Silver gimlet)
Eucalyptus carnabyi
Eucalyptus ceratocorys (Horn-capped mallee)
Eucalyptus cernua (Red-flowered moort)
Eucalyptus coolabah (Coolabah, Coolibah)
Eucalyptus cooperiana (Many-flowered mallee)
Eucalyptus cornuta (Yate)
Eucalyptus cretata (Darke Peak mallee)
Eucalyptus crucis (Southern Cross silver mallee)
Eucalyptus cyanophylla (Blue-leaved mallee or Ghost
mallee)
Eucalyptus cyclostoma
Eucalyptus deflexa (Lake King mallee)
Eucalyptus desmondensis (Desmond mallee)
Eucalyptus diptera (Two-winged gimlet)
Eucalyptus dolichorhyncha (Fuchsia gum)
Eucalyptus doratoxylon (Spearwood)
Eucalyptus dundasii (Dundas blackbutt)
Eucalyptus effusa (Rough-barked gimlet)
Eucalyptus eremicola subsp peeneri (Peeneri mallee,
Water mallee)
Eucalyptus eremophila (Sand mallee)
Eucalyptus erythrocorys (Illyarrie)
Eucalyptus erythronema (Red-flowered mallee)
Eucalyptus extrica (Eastern tallerack)
Eucalyptus formanii (Die Hardy mallee)
Location in
garden
NE10, SW4
NE10
NE3, SW2
SW3
NE4
NE12
NE8 & 12
NW4
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7
8
8
9
9
10
10
NE11
NW5, SW6
SW2 & 3
SW3
NE11
SW3
SW3
NW 4
NE7
SW1
NW6, SW1
SW3, SE
NE7, SW2
SW2, NE3
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11
12
12
13
13
14
14
15
15
16
16
17
17
NE3
SW3
NW10
NE11
NE2,7 & NW8
NW10
NW7 & SW7
SW3
SW3
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18
19
19
20
20
21
21
22
SW3
NW2
NE1
SW2
SW3
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23
23
24
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Species
Eucalyptus forrestiana (Fuchsia gum)
Eucalyptus gamophylla (Warilu, blue leaved mallee)
Eucalyptus gardneri (Blue mallet)
Eucalyptus gillii (Silver mallee)
Eucalyptus glomerosa (Jinjulu)
Eucalyptus gongylocarpa (Marble gum, Baarla)
Eucalyptus gracilis (Yorrel, White mallee)
Eucalyptus grossa (Coarse-leaved mallee)
Eucalyptus horistes
Eucalyptus incerata (Mount Day mallee)
Eucalyptus incrassata (Yellow mallee, Ridge-fruited
mallee)
Eucalyptus kingsmilli (Kingsmill’s mallee)
Eucalyptus kondininensis (Kondinin blackbutt)
Eucalyptus kruseana (Bookleaf mallee)
Eucalyptus laeliae (Darling range ghost gum)
Eucalyptus landsdowneana (Red-flowered mallee box)
Eucalyptus largiflorens (Black box)
Eucalyptus latens (Moon Lagoon)
Eucalyptus lehmannii (Lehmann’s mallee)
Eucalyptus leptophylla (Narrow-leaved red mallee,
Slender-leaved mallee)
Eucalyptus leucophloia (Snappy Gum)
Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. megalocarpa (Largefruited yellow or blue gum)
Eucalyptus longicornis (Red morrell)
Eucalyptus macrandra (River yate)
Eucalyptus macrocarpa (Mottlecah)
Eucalyptus megacornuta (Warted yate)
Eucalyptus minniritchi
Eucalyptus morrisii (Grey mallee)
Eucalyptus myriadena
Eucalyptus newbeyi (Beaufort Inlet mallee)
Eucalyptus occidentalis (Swamp yate, Flat-topped yate)
Eucalyptus oleosa (Red morrell)
Eucalyptus oxymitra (Sharp capped mallee)
Eucalyptus pachyloma (Kalgan Plains mallee)
Eucalyptus petiolaris (Water gum)
Eucalyptus pimpiniana (Pimpin mallee)
Eucalyptus platypus (Moort)
Eucalyptus pleurocarpa (Tallerack)
Eucalyptus pluricaulis subsp. porphyrea (Purple-leaved
mallee)
Eucalyptus preissiana (Bell-fruited mallee)
Eucalyptus pyriformis (Dowerin Rose)
Eucalyptus rhodantha (Rose mallee)
Location in
garden
NW8
NE3
SW1
NE2
SW7
SW3
SW8
NE13
SW4
NE4
SW3
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25
25
26
26
27
27
28
28
29
29
30
SW5, NW10
NE10
SW2
SW4
NE2
NE7
NW1
SW5
NW2, NE8
30
31
31
32
32
33
33
34
34
NE7
NE2, SW4 & SW8
35
35
SW8
NE9, SW2
NW10
NE2, NE1
SW5, NE2
SW
NE4
SW3
NE4
SW3
SW3
SW3
NW4 & 8, SW4
NE3, NW3
NW1
SW5
NW5
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36
37
37
38
38
39
39
40
40
41
41
42
42
43
43
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SW3,NE13,NW9
NW10
NW9 & 10
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Species
Eucalyptus rosacea
Eucalyptus salicola (Salt gum)
Eucalyptus salmonophloia (Salmon gum)
Eucalyptus salubris (Gimlet)
Eucalyptus sepulcralis (Weeping mallee)
Eucalyptus sinuosa (Octopus mallee)
Eucalyptus socialis (Red mallee)
Eucalyptus spathulata (Swamp mallet)
Eucalyptus steedmannii (Steedman’s mallet)
Eucalyptus stoatei (Scarlet Pear gum)
Eucalyptus stricklandii (Strickland’s gum)
Eucalyptus synandra (Jingymia mallee)
Eucalyptus talyuberlup
Eucalyptus tetraptera (Square-fruited mallee)
Eucalyptus torquata (Coral gum)
Eucalyptus Torwood
Eucalyptus trivalvis (Desert mallee)
Eucalyptus vesiculosa (Corackerup marlock)
Eucalyptus viridis (Green mallee)
Eucalyptus websteriana (Webster’s mallee)
Eucalyptus woodwardii (Lemon-flowered gum)
Eucalyptus wyolensis (Wyola mallee)
Eucalyptus youngiana (Yarldarlba)
Location in
garden
NW5 & 10
NE9
NW7
NW5
NE7
NW10
NE8
NE7, SW1
NE8
NW7
SW1, NE10
NE10
NE1, NW3
NE2
NE3, NW7, SW1
SW6, NW10
SW3
NE1 & 10
NE6
SW6
NE2, NW3
SW1
NE3 & 10 & SW3
Glossary
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Eucalyptus alatissima
Common Name
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 10
Brief Description: Mallee to about 7m tall, forming a lignotuber. Rough bark.
Flowers pink or red.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus albida
Common Name: White-leaved mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 10
Brief Description: Mallee to 3m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Bark smooth throughout,
often powdery, white to cream over grey. Juvenile leaves grey and waxy,
adult leaves dark green and glossy. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus alborpurpurea
Common Name: Coffin Bay mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 3, South West Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Rough bark on part or
most of stems, fibrous, grey to grey-brown, or smooth throughout, grey to
pink-grey or coppery brown, glossy & dark green leaves. Flowers white, pink,
mauve or purple.
Distribution: South Australia
Eucalyptus angulosa
Common Name: Ridge-fruited mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3
Brief Description: Mallee to 5m tall with lignotuber. Bark smooth and pale grey.
Flowers usually white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus arachnaea
Common Name: Black-stemmed mallee
Location in Garden :North East Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Bark rough, grey-black for
up to 2.5 metres of trunks, tightly fibrous and fissured to flaky smooth above,
grey and yellowish brown. Flowers creamy white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus baueriana
Common Name: Blue box
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 12.
Brief Description: Tree to 20m tall with lignotuber. Bark rough, grey. Flowers white.
Distribution: Victoria, New South Wales
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Eucalyptus behriana
Common Name: Bull mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum beds 8 and 12.
Brief Description: Tree or mallee to 12m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Rough dark
brown to black bark on lower trunk, upper trunk and branches smooth, greybrown to yellowish green or coppery, often with ribbons of bark, green leaves.
Flowers white clusters.
Distribution: South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
Eucalyptus brandiana
Common Name: Brand’s mallet, Square-fruited mallet
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Tree to about 5m. Leaves very large and glossy. Flower buds
are large and red, stamens pink.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus burracoppinensis
Common Name: Burracoppin mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 11.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark rough on basal
part of trunk consisting of persistent thin strips of grey-brown bark, smooth
above grey and coppery to pink. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus caesia
Common Name: Caesia
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 5, South West Arboretum bed 6.
Brief Description: Mallee to 10m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Minniritchi bark on trunk
and branches, reddish brown, whitish bloom on branches and flower buds,
grey-green leaves. Flowers large red-pink with yellow anthers
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus caesia subsp magna
Common Name: Silver Princess
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum beds 2 & 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 10m tall. Forms a lignotuber, Minniritchi bark on trunk
and branches, reddish brown, Whitish bloom on branches and flower buds,
Grey-green leaves. Flowers large red-pink with yellow anthers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus calycogona
Common Name: Square-fruited mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5m tall, rarely a small tree. Forms a lignotuber.
Smooth bark, cream, grey, grey-brown or pink-coppery, sometimes powdery,
sometimes ribbons of bark in the upper branches, green leaves, Flowers
white, occasionally pink.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
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Eucalyptus campaspe
Common Name: Silver gimlet
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 11.
Brief Description: Mallet to 10m tall. No lignotuber. Smooth and shiny bark,
greenish grey to brownish, or coppery, grey-green leaves. Distinctive silver
grey crown. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus carnabyi
Common Name:
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3
Brief Description: Rare mallee up to 5m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth whitish
grey bark. Flowers pale yellow to pink.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus ceratocorys
Common Name: Horn-capped mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 6m tall with lignotuber. Large glossy green leaves.
Flowers usually white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus cernua
Common Name: Red-flowered moort
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum beds 4.
Brief Description: Mallet to 5 m tall, or a mallet. Lignotuber present or absent.
Smooth bark, dark grey to black over greenish yellow, sheds in strips, green
leaves. Flowers red or pink, occasionally greenish cream.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus coolabah
Common Name: Coolabah, Coolibah
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Tree to 10 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark rough on part or all
of trunk, box-type or sometimes tessellated, grey, grey-brown or blackish,
smooth bark powdery, white, cream, pale grey or pink. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory
Eucalyptus cooperiana
Common Name: Many-flowered mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark smooth throughout
or with some persistent flaky-fibrous rough grey bark at the base of the stem,
smooth bark powdery white over pale grey to pinkish grey. Flowers usually
cream.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus cornuta
Common Name: Yate
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 6, South West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Tree to 20 m tall, sometimes a mallee. Forms a lignotuber.
Rough bark on the trunk, brown to grey or almost black, smooth branches,
pale grey and grey-brown, glossy green leaves. Flowers light yellow in large
heads, long finger-like bud caps.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus cretata
Common Name: Darke Peak mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3, South East Arboretum.
Brief Description: Mallee with lignotuber to 4m tall. Bark mostly smooth grey to
yellow. Flowers white.
Distribution: South Australia
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Eucalyptus crucis
Common Name: Southern Cross silver mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 7, South West Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee to 15 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Minnirichi bark on trunk
and larger branches, green-fawn over rich red-brown, roundish blue-grey
leaves. Flowers profuse and creamy-white to pale yellow
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus cyanophylla
Common Name: Blue-leaved mallee or Ghost mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 2, North East Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark smooth or with a
ragged stocking of partly shed grey or red-brown strips on lower stems;
smooth bark pink to brown, or white to grey or orange-brown, often with
ribbons of decorticated bark in the upper branches. Flowers white.
Distribution: South Australia, Victoria
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Eucalyptus cyclostoma
Common Name:
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Small mallee to 3m tall forming a lignotuber. Smooth bark
throughout which may be grey, cream, brown or pink. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus deflexa
Common Name: Lake King mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 3m tall with lignotuber. Bark smooth grey or white.
Flowers mostly cream.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus desmondensis
Common Name: Desmond mallee
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Mallee to 6 m tall, crown sometimes drooping. Forms a
lignotuber. Smooth bark, grey and pale brown, dull green leaves, Flowers
cream to pale yellow
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus diptera
Common Name: Two-winged gimlet
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 11.
Brief Description: Mallet to 10 m tall, stems fluted. Non-lignotuberous. Bark
smooth throughout, shiny, greenish grey to bronze, coppery or red-brown.
Flowers lemon-white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus dolichorhyncha
Common Name: Fuchsia gum
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum beds 2 and 7, North West Arboretum
bed 8.
Brief Description: Mallet to 6 m tall. Non-lignotuberous. Bark smooth throughout,
pale grey over pale orange to pale brown, shedding in broad ribbons. Buds
red with long beak. Flowers yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus doratoxylon
Common Name: Spearwood
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Mallee, or rarely a small tree, to 5 m tall. Forms a lignotuber.
Smooth bark, powdery white over reddish or greenish brown, rarely with a
short stocking of flaky rough grey-black bark. Dark green glossy leaves.
Flowers white to pale yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus dundasii
Common Name: Dundas blackbutt
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 7, South West Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Tree to 15 m tall. No lignotuber. Rough blackish bark for 2-3 m
of trunk, then smooth grey-green or coppery. Glossy green adult leaves.
Flowers creamy white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus effusa
Common Name: Rough-barked gimlet
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4m tall. Bark in ribbons on lower stems, shiny, smooth
and coppery above. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus eremicola subsp. peeneri
Common Name: Peeneri mallee, Water mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Spreading mallee to 7m tall. Bark rough below, smooth grey
above. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia
Eucalyptus eremophila
Common Name: Sand mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallet, or sometimes a mallee, to 5 m tall. When a mallee, forms
a lignotuber. Smooth bark, pale brown-grey and satiny pale grey, glossy
green leaves. Flowers showy, lemon yellow or pale pink.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus erythrocorys
Common Name: Illyarrie
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Tree or mallee to 8 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Bark smooth,
grey or grey-brown to cream or white, dark glossy green leaves. Flowers:
showy red capped buds opening to bright yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus erythronema
Common Name: Red-flowered mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallee or tree to 6 m tall. Forms a lignotuber.
Smooth bark, dark satiny pink-brown to dark red, shedding to reveal powdery
creamy-white trunk, glossy olive green leaves. Flowers showy, red or yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus extrica
Common Name: Eastern tallerack
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark, grey to
grey-brown, green leaves. Flowers whitish.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus formanii
Common Name: Die Hardy mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Tree or mallee to 10 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Rough bark on
the trunk extending to base of large limbs, smooth bark on branches, cream
brown to pinkish grey. White flowers, glossy green leaves.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus forrestiana
Common Name: Fuchsia gum
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 8.
Brief Description: Tree (mallet) to 4 m tall. No lignotuber. Smooth bark, grey over
pale brown. Showy red flower buds and fruit, yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus gamophylla
Common Name: Warilu, Blue-leaved mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 8 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark usually smooth
throughout, white to grey to brown, sometimes cream to pink; occasionally
with a short stocking of pale grey to yellowy brown rough flaky bark. Flowers
white.
Distribution: Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland
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Eucalyptus gardneri
Common Name: Blue mallet
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallee to 6 m tall, rarely a small tree to 8 m. Forms a lignotuber.
Smooth bark generally, sometimes with some rough bark on lower part of
larger stems, smooth bark white, cream, pink or grey. Branchlets usually
glaucous, grey green or blue grey leaves, Pale yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus gillii
Common Name: Silver mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee to 6 m tall, rarely a small tree to 8 m. Forming a
lignotuber. Bark smooth throughout or with some rough, flaky or box-type
grey or brown bark on lower 2 m of larger stems, the flakes shed imperfectly
giving a curly appearance; smooth bark white, cream, pink or grey. Flowers
pale yellow.
Distribution: South Australia, New South Wales
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Eucalyptus glomerosa
Common Name: Jinjulu
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5m tall with lignotuber. Bark rough at base, smooth and
coppery above. Flowers cream.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia
Eucalyptus gongylocarpa
Common Name: Marble gum, Baarla
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Tree to 16m tall. Bark scaly brown on trunk, white or pale grey
above. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
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Eucalyptus gracilis
Common Name: Yorrel, White mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 8.
Brief Description: Mallee or tree to 7 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark usually
rough on lower stems (rarely smooth throughout), tessellated box-type, flaky
or fibrous, grey or brown; smooth bark white, pink, brown or grey, sometimes
powdery. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
Eucalyptus grossa
Common Name: Coarse-leaved mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 13.
Brief Description: Mallee or shrub to 3 m tall and sometimes as wide with foliage to
ground level. Forms a lignotuber. Bark rough over whole trunks or only on
the base of smaller stems, fibrous, slightly fissured, grey to grey-brown, glossy
green leaves, and large yellow green flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus horistes
Common Name:
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Mallee or rarely a taller tree to 12 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.
Bark usually rough over most of the stems and sometimes extending to the
larger branches, flaky fibrous, sometimes fissured, usually firmly held, light
grey, smooth bark above grey over red-brown. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus incerata
Common Name: Mount Day mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark smooth
throughout, light grey-brown over orange. Buds long and narrow. Flowers
yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus incrassata
Common Name: Yellow mallee, Ridge-fruited mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 8 m tall, forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark sometimes
with persistent rough grey to brown ribbons on base of stems, sometimes
extending for 1-2 m; smooth bark salmon pink to grey-brown or pale grey,
glossy green leaves, Creamy white to pale yellow flowers, occasionally pink or
red.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
Eucalyptus kingsmilli
Common Name: Kingsmill’s mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 5, North West Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Mallee to about 7 m tall or sometimes small tree. Forms a
lignotuber. Bark rough, on part or all of trunk, sometimes smooth throughout
with red-brown and whitish grey to grey-brown bark. Large red buds opening
to yellow flowers, Blue green to light green leaves.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia
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Eucalyptus kondininensis
Common Name: Kondinin blackbutt
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Tree to 10 m tall. Forms with lignotubers and others lacking
lignotubers are known. Bark rough, black or less commonly dark grey-brown,
coarsely flaky and fissured to hard and compact for half or entire trunk,
branches smooth, grey to white over orange to yellow. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus kruseana
Common Name: Bookleaf mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee or shrub to 3 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Rough fibrous,
dark grey bark on base of trunks, smooth above bronze to coppery and dark
grey, retains rounded grey juvenile leaves. Greenish yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus laeliae
Common Name: Darling Range ghost gum
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Tree to 15 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark smooth white
becoming yellow in spring, powdery. Flowers creamy white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus lansdowneana
Common Name: Red-flowered mallee box
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Slender mallee to 6 m tall often arched and twisted. Forming a
lignotuber. Bark rough and grey, flaky or fibrous for up to 2 m of stems, or
smooth throughout and coppery to grey or greenish grey or creamy brown,
shedding in short strips. Flowers red to pink-red.
Distribution: South Australia
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Eucalyptus largiflorens
Common Name: Black box
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Tree to 20 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark rough to small
branches, box-type often tessellated, and dark grey. Flowers white.
Distribution: South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
Eucalyptus latens
Common Name: Moon Lagoon
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5m tall. Juvenile leaves bluish grey, adult leaves glossy
green. Bark smooth. Flowers creamy white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus lehmannii
Common Name: Lehman’s mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 5.
Brief Description: Mallee to 3 m tall, stems slender. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth
bark throughout, whitish grey to grey-brown and orange-brown, glossy green
leaves, large pendulous bud and fruit fused clusters, long slender bud caps
opening to greenish yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus leptophylla
Common Name: Narrow-leaved red mallee, Slender-leaved mallee
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 2, North East Arboretum bed 8.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark, grey, white,
light pinkish grey or salmon, glossy green leaves, creamy white flowers
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
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Eucalyptus leucophloia
Common Name: Snappy gum
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Mallee or tree to 10m high with lignotuber, bark smooth, powdery
throughout. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. megalocarpa
Common Name: Large-fruited yellow or blue gum
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 2, South West Arboretum beds 4
and 8.
Brief Description: Tree to 10 m tall, rarely a mallee. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth
bark throughout, or with some rough, fibrous to flaky yellowish brown bark on
bottom part of trunk. Showy white, red or pink flowers.
Distribution: South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
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Eucalyptus longicornis
Common Name: Red morrell
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 8.
Brief Description: Usually a well formed tree to 25 m tall, rarely a mallee. Forms a
lignotuber. Usually rough bark over most of the stem, larger branches usually
smooth-barked, white to grey, rarely pink-grey to green-grey, narrow, glossy
green leaves, white flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus macrandra
Common Name: River yate
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 9, South West Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4 m tall, occasionally a tree. Forms a lignotuber. Bark
usually smooth throughout, grey over grey-brown or salmon, rarely with a
basal stocking of rough blackish bark, glossy green to olive-green leaves.
Showy yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus macrocarpa
Common Name: Mottlecah
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Mallee shrub to 3 m tall, often sprawling. Forms a lignotuber.
Smooth bark, shiny yellowish brown and grey-brown, large glaucous grey
leaves, large showy red flowers, large nuts.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus megacornuta
Common Name: Warted yate
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 2, North East Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallet to 15m tall – no lignotuber. Smooth bark throughout.
Large warty buds, flowers yellowish green.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus minniritchi
Common Name:
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 5, North East Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Small multitrunked mallee 2-4m tall with a lignotuber. Minniritchi
bark. Pale yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
Eucalyptus morrisii
Common Name: Grey mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4m tall forming a lignotuber. Rough bark. Flowers
white.
Distribution: New South Wales
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Eucalyptus myriadena
Common Name:
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Mallee or tree to 10 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark rough and
coarsely flaky, grey-brown to grey-black usually for only about half of trunks
then smooth above, bronze-grey and coppery. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus newbeyi
Common Name: Beaufort Inlet mallet
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallet to 8 m tall. Lignotuber absent. Bark smooth throughout,
mottled yellow-brown and grey to creamy yellow, shedding in flakes. Flowers
yellowish green.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus occidentalis
Common Name: Swamp yate, Flat-topped yate
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 4.
Brief Description: Tree to 20 m tall, rarely a mallee. Forms a lignotuber. Rough
dark bark over part or all of the trunk, sometimes extending to large limbs,
smooth bark above, white to pale grey or pale grey-brown, sometimes
powdery, glossy green leaves, pale lemon to cream flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus oleosa
Common Name: Red morrell
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 8 m tall or occasionally a taller tree to 10 m. Forming a
lignotuber. Bark usually rough on lower stems, flaky or fibrous, usually loose,
grey to grey-brown, at times with short ribbons of decorticated bark in the
upper branches; occasionally smooth barked to ground level, cream, greyyellow, pink, brown or coppery. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales
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Eucalyptus oxymitra
Common Name: Sharp-capped mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark of trunks more or
less rough with grey-brown imperfectly decorticated ribbons, smooth grey and
creamy above. Flowers white or pale yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory
Eucalyptus pachyloma
Common Name: Kalgan Plains mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4m tall with lignotuber. Bark smooth throughout.
Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus petiolaris
Common Name: Water gum
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum beds 4 and 8, South West Arboretum
bed 4.
Brief Description: Tree to 15 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Partly rough bark on trunk,
Smooth bark grey or yellowish cream, glossy green to dark green leaves.
Showy white, pink or brilliant red flowers.
Distribution: South Australia
Eucalyptus pimpiniana
Common Name: Pimpin mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed13 and North West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee’s to 2 m tall and often wider. Forms a lignotuber. Bark
smooth throughout, sometimes powdery, mottled salmon, pink, white, pale
grey and brown. Yellow flowers and blue-grey foliage.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia
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Eucalyptus platypus
Common Name: Moort
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallet or marlock to 8 m tall. No Lignotuber. Smooth bark, greygreen over coppery brown, glossy dark green to olive-green leaves. Creamy
white to lemon green flowers, rarely pink-red.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus pleurocarpa
Common Name: Tallerack
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum beds 5.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall, usually with many long, thin, erect stems.
Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark, grey to grey-brown. Crown consists only of
juvenile leaves which are grey and glaucous, leaves. Whitish flowers. Often
incorrectly named as E. tetragona.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus pluricaulis subsp porphyrea
Common Name: Purple-leaved mallee
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 5.
Brief Description: Mallee usually less than 3 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark
smooth throughout, grey and light brown or with some persistent thin strips of
ribbony basal bark. Flowers pale yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus preissiana
Common Name: Bell-fruited mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3, North East Arboretum bed 13,
North West Arboretum bed 9
Brief Description: Mallee or spreading shrub to 2.5 m tall. Forms a lignotuber.
Smooth bark, pale grey and brown, thick light green leaves, showy yellow
flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus pyriformis
Common Name: Dowerin Rose
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark generally,
sometimes with a short stocking of persistent rough bark, smooth bark greybrown shedding to light brown or reddish grey, dull grey to grey-green leaves.
Large pinkish-red or yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus rhodantha
Common Name: Rose mallee
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum beds 9 and 10.
Brief Description: Mallee or shrub to 3m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark
throughout, grey, grey-brown and pinkish grey. Large glaucous grey heart
shaped leaves. Large striking red flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus rosacea
Common Name:
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum beds 5 and 10.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4m tall forming a lignotuber. Smooth bark. Flowers
cream, pink or red.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus salicola
Common Name: Salt gum
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 9.
Brief Description: Tree to 15 m tall. Lignotuber absent; epicormic buds present up
stems. Bark smooth throughout, powdery, white to pale grey over salmon
pink. Flowers creamy white.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus salmonophloia
Common Name: Salmon gum
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Tree to 25 m tall. No Lignotuber. Smooth bark, pale grey over
salmon-pink to cream. Very glossy green leaves. Creamy white flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus salubris
Common Name: Gimlet
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 5.
Brief Description: Mallet to 15 m tall, stems fluted. No lignotuber. Smooth bark,
shiny, steely grey or olive green to tan, coppery or yellow, very glossy green
leaves. White flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus sepulcralis
Common Name: Weeping mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Tree or mallee to 7m tall with lignotuber. Stems very slender and
weeping. Smooth bark. Flowers pale yellow.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus sinuosa
Common Name: Octopus mallee
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Bushy mallee. Very long sinuous bud caps. Flowers yellowgreen.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus socialis
Common Name: Red mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 8.
Brief Description: Mallee to 10m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth Bark , white to
light grey or pale coppery brown, occasionally rough on lower trunks. White
flowers & dull green leaves.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria,
Queensland, Northern Territory
Eucalyptus spathulata
Common Name: Swamp mallet
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 7, South West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallet to 10 m tall, with a dense fine crown. No Lignotuber.
Smooth satin-like bark, silvery grey over coppery, pink and bronze, glossy
olive-green leaves, small white flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus steedmannii
Common Name: Steedman’s mallet
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 8.
Brief Description: Mallet to 12 m tall. No lignotuber. Bark smooth throughout,
satiny, light pink to rich red-brown and grey. White flowers & glossy green
leaves.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus stoatei
Common Name: Scarlet pear gum
Location in Garden: North West Arboretum bed 7.
Brief Description: Mallet to 6 m tall. No lignotuber. Smooth bark, grey over brown
to cream, glossy green leaves, large showy red flower buds & fruit, yellow
flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus stricklandii
Common Name: Strickland’s gum
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 1, North East Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Tree to 9 m tall, trunk often short. No Lignotuber. Rough bark for
base of trunk, crumbly to flaky, grey-black and red-brown, glossy green
leaves, yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus synandra
Common Name: Jingymia mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 10.
Brief Description: Mallee to 4 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Smooth bark, white,
reddish and pale grey, sometimes powdery. White or pink flowers, dull green
leaves.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus talyuberlup
Common Name:
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 1, North West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description:Mallee to 4m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark, pale browngrey and whitish, green leaves. Flowers large yellow-green clusters.
Distribution:Western Australia
Eucalyptus tetraptera
Common Name: Square-fruited mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 2.
Brief Description: Mallee or shrub to 4 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Smooth bark,
mottled dark and pale to silvery grey, large, thick glossy green leaves, large
striking square red flowers buds, red to pink flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus torquata
Common Name: Coral gum
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 3, North West Arboretum bed 7,
South West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Tree to 12 m tall. Lignotuber character unknown. Bark rough,
hard, dark grey to blackish, shortly fissured to almost tessellated, over most or
all of trunk, branches smooth, and various shades of dark grey to black.
Flowers usually pink.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus Torwood
Common Name:
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 6 and North West Arboretum bed
10.
Brief Description: Tree to 10m tall. Grey smooth bark, blue green leaves. A natural
and variable hybrid of E. torquata and E. woodwardii, with showy bright yellow
or pink red flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus trivalvis
Common Name: Desert mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallees or small trees to 5 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Bark partly
or wholly rough on trunks with grey to reddish brown curly strips of partly
decorticated bark (rarely smooth throughout); smooth bark pale grey to greybrown, shiny pink-brown to greenish when newly exposed. Flowers white.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus vesiculosa
Common Name: Corackerup marlock
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum beds 1 & 10.
Brief Description: Marlock (single-stemmed small tree branching low) to 3 m tall,
trunk slender. Lignotuber absent. Bark smooth throughout, shiny, grey over
rich red-brown. Flowers red with cream anthers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus viridis
Common Name: Green mallee
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 6.
Brief Description: Mallee or tree to 8 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark rough, dark
grey and box-type on lower stems, smooth above, grey-brown and coppery to
pink-grey. Flowers white.
Distribution: South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland
Eucalyptus websteriana
Common Name: Webster’s mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 6.
Brief Description: Mallee to 5 m tall. Forms a lignotuber. Minniritchi bark on trunk
and branches, red to red-brown, grey-green leaves, pale lemon yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
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Eucalyptus woodwardii
Common Name: Lemon-flowered gum
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum bed 2, North West Arboretum bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallet to 10m tall. No lignotuber. Branches pendulous, the tips
brushing the ground. Bark smooth, white over salmon to pink, grey-green
leaves. Showy bright yellow flowers.
Distribution: Western Australia
Eucalyptus wyolensis
Common Name: Wyola mallee
Location in Garden: South West Arboretum bed 1.
Brief Description: Mallee to 7 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark usually rough over
most of the lower stem, sometimes extending to the larger branches, fibrous,
light grey to brown; upper stem mostly smooth-barked, smooth bark grey to
brown to cream. Flowers yellow.
Distribution: South Australia
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Eucalyptus youngiana
Common Name: Yarldarlba
Location in Garden: North East Arboretum beds 3 and 10, South West Arboretum
bed 3.
Brief Description: Mallee to 8 m tall, sometimes trees to about 10 m. Forms a
lignotuber. Rough bark over part or all of trunk, smooth above, whitish grey
over yellowish or salmon pink, dull light green leaves, Large red, pink or bright
yellow flowers, large distinctive fruits.
Distribution: Western Australia, South Australia
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GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS
The pollen-bearing organ at the apex of the stamen
Forming or belonging to a bottom layer or base.
Covered with a white wax on the surface
The progeny resulting from the crossing of two parents with different
genetic systems, ie. Usually of different species
Lignotuber Is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a
protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire.
A growth form of many eucalypts, ie. A multi-stemmed shrub with a
Mallee
lignotuber; (sometimes used loosely for a low straggly short-trunked
tree)
A specialized tree growth form found only in Western Australia,
Mallet
having slender erect stems and steeply angled branches but lacking
the regenerative structures found in many other eucalypts, viz.
lignotubers and epicormics buds
A single-stemmed shrub or small tree which has spreading branches
Marlock
that are densely leafy often almost to the ground, and lacks a
lignotuber
Minniritchi Minniritchi is a type of reddish brown bark that continuously peels in
small curly flakes, leaving the tree looking like it has a coat of red
curly hair.
Operculum In eucalypts, the cap (or caps) of a flower bud which is formed by the
fusion of the sepals or the petals, and comes off at maturity exposing
the reproductive organs
The stalk of a flower, bud or fruit
Pedicel
Subspecies A form of a species having a distinctive identity and occupying a
particular habitat or region
Anther
Basal
Glaucous
Hybrid
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